Archives for May, 2014

The practice of affirmations can be a powerful means to heal, change and grow in positive directions. Correctly applied, reaching for customized affirmations is also one of the easiest, fastest, most effective ways to supercharge your life -- in a given moment or situation -- to activate the health-boosting hormones and processes that optimal emotional states produce in the brain and body.

In contrast to codependency tendencies, a pattern of relating to others (and self) with little or no sense of the value of one's own needs or wants as critical or significant to fostering healthy, vibrant relationships, those with narcissistic tendencies display a pattern of relating (to others and self) in the opposite direction. They view others as...